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«In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take religion more seriously than the practitioners.»
Author: Jonathon Miller
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Atheism
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atheists, awful, paradoxical, practitioner, practitioners, seriously, strange, tend
«It is difficult to make a reputation, but it is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made - so faithful is the public»
Author: Arnold Bennett
| About:
Reputation
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difficult, faithful, Mar, properly, public, reputation, seriously
«If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.»
«I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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affront, affronted, affronts, intelligence, seriously, would-be
«Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at your predicaments, thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously.»
Author: Og Mandino
(Essayist, Psychologist)
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«It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere.»
«I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when you speak earnestly and seriously on the subject, is silent»
«It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Humor,
Seriousness
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«Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.»
«If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.»
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